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Tshisekedi assumed office in January, taking over from Kabila who had been in power for 18 years. (K. Katombe/Reuters)

Two main DRC parties urge leaders to form coalition government

The stalemate has put a brake on Tshisekedi’s declared ambitions of reforming a country marked by corruption and rights abuses.

Opposition presidential candidate in the DRC, Martin Fayulu, leaves the CMP with his wife Esther after they attended a Sunday mass on January 13. (Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images)

Who is Martin Fayulu?

Known as the ‘people’s soldier’, Fayulu is challenging the DRC’s December 30 election results

The African Development Bank’s shareholders must decide whether the mandate will expand to crowd in private finance, derisk green investment and underwriter regional public goods, or retreat to classical project lending.

SADC urges unity government after DRC vote

The regional bloc has urged ‘all political leaders to consider a negotiated political settlement for an all-inclusive government’ in the DRC

‘Peace is an essential part of the democratic process,’ says ?International Relations Minister Lindiwe Sisulu. (Dirco)

SA supports DRC’s peaceful election — Sisulu

The international relations minister says the government is awaiting the final results

The DRC’s Martin Fayulu needs to decide whether he can continue with his campaign or adopt a new strategy ahead of elections in 2023, writes the author. (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC presidential runner-up asks court to cancel result

Martin Fayulu has appealed to the Constitutional Court to annul the provisional result which awarded victory to his opposition rival Felix Tshisekedi

Tom Thabane. (Reuters)

Editorial: Big-man politics again blots out the Congolese

The DRC is a complex, challenging political quagmire

DRC’s Independent National Electoral Commission Corneille Nangaa Yobeluo announces the provisional results of the presidential election in Kinshasa on January 10. (Junior D. Kannah/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC Catholic Church says vote result ‘does not reflect’ polling station data

France’s top diplomat says the Church’s count indicated Felix Tshisekedi’s opposition rival Martin Fayulu had actually won

Felix Tshisekedi has promised the return of the rule of law to the DRC, to bring about peace and to fight the ‘gangrene’ of corruption. (Caroline Thirion/AFP/Getty Images)

Who is Felix Tshisekedi?

The president-elect of the DRC says he will be the people’s president

Felix Tshisekedi (Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC’s Tshisekedi: Son, heir and president-elect

Since his father founded the UDPS in 1982, the party has served as an opposition mainstay in the DRC

Photo of fuel tanks at the edge of a Military airstrip on Diego Garcia, largest island in the Chagos archipelago and site of a major United States military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean

Hopes rise that DRC’s elections are in home stretch

The country is in flux over a thrice-delayed presidential vote

An Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) agent seals a ballot box in front of observers at the Kitendo voting centre in Lubumbashi’s Mapala district on December 30. (Caroline Thirion/AFP/Getty Images)

DRC election results could be counted in ’24-48 hours’ — official

Opposition presidential candidate Martin Fayulu earlier on Tuesday warned electoral authorities ‘not to disguise the truth of the polls’

Some in the DRC identify opposition leader Martin Fayulu as the winner but official results have yet to be released. (Luis TATO/AFP/Getty Images)

What DRC’s flawed election means for emerging democratic culture in Africa

Efforts to pull off democratic elections that could pass muster in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are hanging by a thread

Taxis drive along the street after the announcement by Congo’s election board to postpone a presidential vote scheduled for Sunday by one week. (Kenny Katombe/Reuters)

DRC on edge as election results postponed

The December 30 vote saw 21 candidates run to replace President Joseph Kabila, who has ruled the vast, conflict-ridden country for almost 18 years

Mentor says she’s not been promised a seat in the National Assembly and joins the party as a volunteer. (David Harrison/M&G)

DRC: State says it cut internet to avoid ‘uprising’ after vote

The DRC has never had a peaceful transition of power since independence from Belgium in 1960, and bloodshed marred elections in 2006 and 2011

Bemba lost presidential elections to Kabila in 2006 and was later accused of treason when his bodyguards clashed with the army in Kinshasa. (Reuters/Michael Kooren)

Bemba’s party to appeal after ex-warlord barred from DRC vote

The DRC’s election commission ruled out Bemba running on the basis that he was "convicted by the International Criminal Court" for bribing witnesses

Presidents Jacob Zuma and Joseph Kabila.

DRC: The election that never happened

South Africa seems to have adopted an incredibly narrow understanding of how countries help each other.

Congolese nationals claim intimidation during raids

Congolese nationals claim intimidation during raids

Congolese nationals living in South Africa are furious at what they call politically-linked intimidation and violence by police during raids.

VSV calls for new round of monitored elections in DRC

VSV calls for new round of monitored elections in DRC

A rights group in the Democratic Republic of Congo has called for new elections following November’s controversial legislative and presidential polls.

Court reviews DRC vote amid fears of Kabila bias

Court reviews DRC vote amid fears of Kabila bias

The Supreme Court now takes centre stage as the arbiter of a poll that five opposition candidates have rejected in the DRC’s presidential election.

Court reviews DRC vote amid fears of Kabila bias

Fear of factions ahead of DRC poll results

Politicians in the DRC have been urged to show restraint as opposition parties reject partial results that show President Joseph Kabila in the lead.